¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,^{(A) 15} and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures,^(B) which are able to give you wisdom for salvation^(C) through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is inspired by God^[a](D) and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.^(E)

Fulfill Your Ministry

4 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge^(F) the living and the dead,^(G) and because of his appearing and his kingdom:^{(H) 2} Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching. ³ For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,^(I) but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. ⁴ They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.^(J)

¹⁷ Sanctify^(A) them by the truth; ^(B) your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you sent me into the world,^(C) I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Jesus Prays for All Believers

²⁰ “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. ²¹ May they all be one,^(D) as you, Father, are in me and I am in you.^(E) May they also be^[a] in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. ²² I have given them the glory^(F) you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. ²³ I am in them and you are in me,^(G) so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved^(H) them as you have loved me.^(I)

²⁴ “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,^(J) so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation. ²⁵ Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you,^(K) and they have known that you sent me. ²⁶ I made your name^(L) known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.”^(M)

Hearing and Doing the Word

¹⁹ My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,^{(A) 20} for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. ²¹ Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,^[a] humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.^(B)

²² But^(C) be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face^[b] in a mirror. ²⁴ For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. ²⁵ But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.^(D)